Joshua Bassett reveals he nearly died after Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s Drivers License dropped Instagram: joshuatbassettOlivia Rodrigo set the internet ablaze with her song Drivers License, and while many fans wanted a response from Joshua Bassett \u2014 the supposed target of the diss \u2014 he was actually in the hospital. When it comes to Disney\u2019s High School Musical: The Series, the drama extends beyond the fictional East High School. With rumors flying regarding a supposed relationship between co-stars Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett, the turmoil even made it onto Saturday Night Live. As Rodrigo continues to break records with her album, Sour, Bassett is well on the way to cementing himself in the TikTok hall of fame for his fun-filled videos. Finally opening up to GQ on all of the Disney Channel drama, he\u2019s confessed that drama surrounding Rodrigo\u2019s now-iconic track, Drivers License, may have caused him so much stress that he actually almost died. Joshua Bassett talks about almost dying In the wake of Drivers License\u2019s insane success, fans automatically assumed that the song\u2019s lyrics were aimed at Bassett and, in turn, that the pair\u2019s non-existent relationship had come to a close. Two days after the song dropped, he was admitted to the hospital with septic shock and heart failure. The star told GQ that he \u201cstarted getting very ill, and it kept getting worse. I thought it was, like, food poisoning or whatever. It got worse, it got worse, it got worse, it got worse.\u201d Noting that \u201cI\u2019m sure stress had a part in it,\u201d he was hospitalized and informed by doctors \u201cthat I had a 30% chance of survival. They told me that if I had not checked into the hospital within 12 hours, I would have been found [dead] in my apartment.\u201d A video from his time in hospital can be seen below. View this post on Instagram As the rumors swirled and the world continued to push for Bassett\u2019s response to Rodrigo\u2019s supposed digs, he \u201cdidn\u2019t have any energy to be able to focus on anything but staying alive.\u201d While Bassett appears back to his usual self and urges fans to \u201cfocus on these women [Rodrigo and co-star, Sabrina Carpenter] for who they are\u2026 instead of their relationship to a boy,\u201d the incident is a reminder that there\u2019s always more going on than meets the eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joshua Bassett reveals he nearly died after Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s Drivers License dropped Instagram: joshuatbassettOlivia Rodrigo set the internet ablaze with her song Drivers License, and while many fans wanted a response from Joshua Bassett \u2014 the supposed target of the diss \u2014 he was actually in the hospital. When it comes to Disney\u2019s High School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}